THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – WHY NOT
A few days ago, Francis Ford Coppola – following in the footsteps of Martin Scorsese who compared the Marvel universe to an “amusement park” – spoke in the magazine QG on the new Hollywood bonanza: “Before, there were studio films. Now there’s Marvel Pictures. And what is a Marvel movie? A Marvel film is a film prototype that is duplicated ad infinitum. A film that is made over and over and over and over again, to look a little different. » The author of the Godfather, even if it would be, this time, the alliance between Warner and DC Comics, which, hay of the pandemic and its troublemakers, gives us in this case the Batman to remoudre for the tenth time.
After the baroque diptych (1989, 1992) directed by Tim Burton, then the vaguely punk one (1995, 1997) by Joel Schumacher, then the tortured trilogy (2005, 2008, 2012) hatched by Christopher Nolan, then the winded diptych (2015, 2017) by Zack Snyder devoted to the expanded universe of the hero, here is The Batman (admire the self-glorifying sobriety of this title), first opus of a new “updating” operated by Matt Reeves. The director is to be considered, since we owe him both the screenplay of The Yards of James Gray that the realization of Cloverfield and of The Planet of the Apes.
In this possible new saga, Robert Pattinson takes on the role of the caparisoned Zorro, following Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale and Ben Affleck. So many interpretations whose importance we will relativize by recalling that Batman is a hooded monolith that it is enough to interpret without moving a single muscle of the face to win the piece. One would even be tempted to claim that this psychorigid puritan is a lugubrious character who owes his interest only to the gallery of colorful psychopaths who don’t like him any more than you or me.
Haunted and Tortured Hero
On this basis, Matt Reeves bends the narrative towards the side of the criminal intrigue film at the Seven (David Fincher, 1995), electing the Riddler (the Sphynx, played by Paul Dano) as the main antagonist. The latter, supremely intelligent and Machiavellian nutcase, likes nothing better than to defy the police, and even more so Batman his ultimate prey, leaving at the scene of the crime puzzles that relaunch a pursuit in which he is always one step ahead. . Caught in the snares of this evil spirit, as in the villainous and corrupt night of Gotham City, Batman will not have much help from the feline Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz) and the upright Commissioner Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) to overcome the problem.
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